Archlinux setup instructions

Arch setup.md

Full guide here

First steps:

• Check internet. Skip keyboard setup
• Set time timedatectl set-ntp true
• Setup disks. fdisk -l to see available hardware. e.g. /dev/sda
  • fdisk /dev/sda and start creating all the needed partions with sizes (/home, /boot, swap, /, /opt, /usr)
  • when done press w and the partition table will be written to disk (after that previous data is 50% fucked unless it's the same as before)
• Format partitions e.g. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
• Now mount everything. the directory to mount to is /mnt. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt, mkdir /mnt/{boot,home,usr,opt} and do the same trick for other partitions.
• Edit pacman file and move servers closer to you if required, this will be copied to your final installation. nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
• Do base install pacstrap /mnt base
• Generate fstab genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab and check if swap is not added add it manually
• Do arch-chroot /mnt
• Set timezone ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kiev /etc/localtime and run hwclock --systohc
• Set locale locale-gen and echo "LANG=ru_RU.UTF8" >> /etc/locale.conf
• Set hostname in /etc/hostname
• Set root password aaaand reboot